The All-Photonics Metro-Access Converged Network (APN) aims to achieve a flat and
simple architecture that even covers access areas and represents the evolution of optical …

New Photonic Gateway to Handle Digital-Coherent and IM-DD User Terminals and Enable
Turn-back Connections in Metro/Access-Integr Page 1 New Photonic Gateway to Handle …

Optical and mobile broadband services have been widely adopted to support various
applications including center-to-end and end-to-end communications. This raises further …

The breathtaking success of the WDM technology in backbone networks also pushes the
development and implementation of optical packet-switched WDM local and metropolitan …

We propose and experimentally demonstrate novel in-line control and management scheme
for in-service end-to-end user connections with any signal protocol in the All-Photonics …

Conference title, upper and lower case, bolded, 18 point type, centered Page 1 Photonic
Gateway for Direct and Protocol-Independent End-to-End User Connections Kazuaki Honda …

While all-optical networking had its origins in the research community a quarter of a century
ago, the realization of the vision has not had a straight trajectory. The original goal of the all …

We describe progress to date on the IST project PIEMAN (Photonic Integrated Extended
Metro and Access Network, www. ist-pieman. org), which aims to build a radically new …

Summary form only given. A transcontinental network of hundreds of nodes is shown to be
more cost-effective when built of two tiers: a backbone all-optical network (AON) tier of tens …

We present a scalable and novel modular optical metro core node architecture and low cost
metro access node architectures with edge computing functionalities employing photonic …